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Agents at Work
Catalyst, an AI agent that builds enterprise automations from ticket history, represents a shift from reactive support to proactive system-building. The question is whether a $1B startup can move fast enough to matter.
◆ Dana Ellison
Trust & Security
Hazy Scorpius has compromised more than 40 engineering organizations through an unauthenticated RCE in PTC Windchill, and the CLOP affiliate's 10-14 month exploitation cadence is now targeting industrial PLM infrastructure instead of file transfer services.
◆ Heath Callahan
Agents at Work
As AI agents proliferate, Okta is moving to bring them under the same governance umbrella as human employees.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Home
The September 4 mobile discontinuation is just the beginning. Across 800 million devices, Google is forcing a migration from Assistant to Gemini for Home — and the early results are messy.
◆ Mila Cohen
Infrastructure
Apple ML Research builds evaluation infrastructure directly on top of MCP specifications, challenging assumptions about what drives agent performance and exposing blind spots in current metrics.
◆ Blair Hayes
Money & Markets
The world's largest domestic sukuk primary market just completed its first on-chain settlement pilot, demonstrating that tokenization can preserve Shariah compliance while digitizing institutional capital market infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Seven agencies missed their rulemaking deadlines. The enforcement date is locked. And the infrastructure to comply cannot be retrofitted in 141 days.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
SEC RIN 3235-AN46 entered OIRA review Aug 25, targeting an NPRM by October. With the GENIUS Act enforcement date locked for January 2027 and OCC/FDIC stablecoin rules already in proposed-rule stage, five separate regulatory tracks are converging into a single institutional framework for digital asset custody, settlement, and settlement finality.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens laid out a three-test framework for sound money at Jackson Hole — and argued stablecoins fail all three. Meanwhile, twelve major banks are building one on public chains.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Agents at Home
Every major platform ships "Matter-compatible." But compatibility ≠ interoperability. Consumers are buying the promise and getting the fragmentation.
◆ Mila Cohen
